Don -
What can you tell us about performance in this situation?  The few emulations I
have seen are so slow in comparsion to a true X setup that I shudder to think
about anyone using them all day, day in and day out, and yet I keep hearing that
people do.

James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support



Don Sykes <dsykes AT INTERPATH DOT COM> on 02/08/2000 08:18:34 PM

Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
      <NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU>

To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
cc:    (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
Subject:  Re: Remote Access / Web Access




As part of a much larger remote access project,  our company uses Windows NT,
Terminal Server with Citrix for this.  We loaded Reflection X on the NT server
(pick the X emulator you like, we use Reflection X because they have a version
specific to Citrix and multi-user access) and remotely control a NT session
using the Citrix client.  Its not like sitting at the console but actually works
quite well for remote access.  I would suggest at least 1024x768 resolution on
the client to display a map you can read.

Hope this helps....

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Patrick McNeil
  To: NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu
  Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 3:00 PM
  Subject: Remote Access / Web Access


  Hello everyone,

  I am currently being tasked with coming up with a remote access solution for
our network support group.  My first suggestion was load X-Windows Server
software on a laptop and the on-call person can take the laptop home and dial-up
for remote access.  Unfortunately when I tried it, it takes on the order of
about 15 minutes before NetView is actually usable when dialing up.  What I mean
by usable is that you can actually look at the event log see what is down, etc.

  The next solution seems to be web access (which I haven't tried remotely,
yet).  It looks like you have to have a read-write map open to do this.  Which
is fine during the day, but at night the desktop people want everyone to log out
(which then kills the web session).

  Is anyone doing some type of remote access for their administrators?
  Is there anyway around the read-write map access? What about in version 6?
What about 3rd party?

  Thanks,

  Patrick